How Azure pricing works

Azure Media Services lets you deliver any media, on virtually any device, to anywhere in the world using the cloud. The collection of services provide encoding, live or on-demand streaming, content protection, and indexing for video and audio content.

Important: The price in R$ is merely a reference; this is an int'l transaction and the final price is subject to exchange rates and the inclusion of IOF taxes and an eNF will not be issued.

Streaming

Deliver on-demand and live video streams to customers in multiple formats and at scale. Streaming is billed by the amount of data transferred and Streaming Units required. When Azure CDN is not enabled for Media Services, data transfer is charged at Data Transfer pricing. When Azure CDN is enabled for Streaming Units, data transfer charges do not apply. Data transferred is instead just charged at standard CDN pricing.

Streaming Units

Provides dedicated bandwidth capacity for both on-demand and live streaming.

Streaming Units

Price (per unit)

$139/mo 1

Bandwidth

Up to 200 Mbps / unit

Failover

Built-in

1 Billing is prorated daily based on 31 days per month.

Live Channels

Live Channels, now generally available, is used in conjunction with Streaming Units to provide live streaming service. Live Channels is billed per hour. Partial hours are prorated by the minute.

Support & SLA

Technical support for all generally available services, including Azure Media Services, is available through Azure Support, starting at $29/month. Billing and subscription management support is provided at no cost.

We guarantee 99.9% availability of REST API transactions for Media Services Encoding, Indexing, and Packaging. Streaming has a 99.9% availability guarantee for existing media content when at least one Streaming Unit is purchased. For Live Channels, we guarantee external connectivity for running Channels at least 99.9% of the time. Availability is calculated over a monthly billing cycle. Preview services don’t have an SLA. To learn more, visit the Azure SLA page.

FAQ

An Encoding Reserved Unit provides a dedicated queue for your media processing tasks. Using multiple Encoding Reserved Units enables you to execute multiple tasks in parallel, with each Encoding Reserved Unit dedicated to a single task.

You are charged based on the highest number of Encoding Reserved Units that are provisioned each day. In this example, you will be charged for four Encoding Reserved Units for that day. Streaming Units are also charged based on the highest number of Streaming Units that are provisioned each day.